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Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXXΤΟ λῆμμα ὃ εἶδεν Ἀμβακοὺμ ὁ προφήτης. (TO laʸmma ho eiden Ambakoum ho profaʸtaʸs. )
KJB-1769The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
KJB-1611¶ The burden which Habakkuk ye Prophet did see. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)
BshpsThe burde which Habacuc the prophete dyd see. (The burde which Habacuc the prophet did see.)
GnvaThe burden, which Habakkuk the Prophet did see.
CvdlThis is the heuy burthe, which the prophet Abacuc dyd se. (This is the heavy burden, which the prophet Abacuc did see.)
WyclThe birthun that Abacuk, the profete, sai. (The burden that Abacuk, the prophet, sai.)
LuthDies ist die Last, welche der Prophet Habakuk gesehen hat. (This/These is the Last, which the/of_the Prophet Habakuk seen has.)
ClVgOnus quod vidit Habacuc propheta. (Onus that he_saw Habacuc a_prophet. )
(Occurrence 0) The message that Habakkuk the prophet received,
(Some words not found in UHB: the,oracle which/who saw Ḩₐⱱaqqūq the,prophet )
These words introduce the first two chapters of the book. It is implicit that Habakkuk received this message from Yahweh. This can be stated as a complete sentence. Alternate translation: “This is the message that Habakkuk the prophet received from Yahweh.”
If you ask someone today what biblical prophets did, they will likely tell you that they divinely foretold of future events. While this was often the case, most prophets in the Bible focused as much on “forthtelling” God’s messages as they did on “foretelling” the future. That is, their primary role was to simply “forthtell” divinely acquired messages to leaders and groups of people, and at times that included foretelling of coming judgment, blessing, rescue, etc. Also, though plenty of prophets (sometimes called “seers” in Scripture) often spoke in confrontational or eccentric language that put them at odds with kings and religious leaders, the biblical writers also applied the term prophet to people who communicated God’s messages in ways that many readers today might not think of as prophecy, such as worship leaders appointed by David to “prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals” (1 Chronicles 25:1). Similarly, the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings are typically categorized as history by Christians, but in the Hebrew canon they belong to the category of Former Prophets. The Lord raised up prophets throughout all of biblical history, from the giving of the law under Moses to the revelation of the last days by the apostle John, and the kings of Israel and Judah often recognized and supported specific people as official prophets of the royal court and consulted them to find out God’s perspective about official matters. Following is a list of nearly everyone designated as prophet or seer in the Old Testament and the primary area of their ministry.
